Republicans threaten hunger strike

THE spectre of republican hunger strikes looms over the North’s prison regime as inmates on a “dirty protest” planned new action.

Inmates linked to the Real IRA and other dissident terror organisations who are staging their protest by smearing excrement over cell walls in Maghaberry prison were prepared to die, supporters said yesterday.

Fears have also been raised that prison officers could be harmed as the crisis deepens.

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